Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

We’re due for a hard frost tonight, so I guess the garden season is at an end. Goodbye my lovelies. 🌱 #bloonscrolling

“I’m so relieved that the only problem I cared about - me experiencing mild social discomfort - is now over” my brother in Christ, do you want to bet

As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Because you need a wide range of experts poking holes in your plans to identify and resolve problems in the early stages. Public input is foundational to public policy you fucking assholes.

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

kind of hoping Mike Johnson will implode the Senate deal.

Gibby attended his first adoption event today at a Pride festival. He was the only one of our fosters that we sent because Gibby loves meeting people. I was told he did great! Maybe he’ll even get an application. 🤞🏻

Happy #Caturday from Gilbert and Sullivan

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

AND ran unopposed after Robert Kraft's son ran a campaign (but dropped out) If you're not familiar with the name, he's the owner of the New England Patriots that built the dynasty of this century. The Krafts are HUGE in Boston. And she still crushed him. ❤️

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Whenever you see that women, or immigrants, or an entire generation of people is ruining something, it always begs the question “for whom?” The answer is invariably the same which tells me everything I need to know.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Brutal

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Now is the part where we find out they can’t comply because the administration already drained the contingency fund and used the money elsewhere.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I swear our foster kitten Gilbert (aka Gibby the Goober) was an orange cat in a previous life and someone neglected to do a factory reset.

stolen from another social where it was probably stolen from another social.

This is the return on investment they expect for investing in the ballroom, but the pay to play looks a lot like corporate socialism.

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

stupidly, this possibility never occurred to me

A couple roses blooming today. Left Princess Charlene de Monaco and Right, Olivia Rose Austin. Both very fragrant!

Every update from the Washington police court case against the guy who threw a sandwich at a cop is funnier than the last. I’m praying the guy gets acquitted and then sues the police so the comedy can continue 😃

This measure lost 64% to 36%, remarkable.

Last night’s story in Georgia is a story about voters reclaiming our power. GYJC knocked on 132,491 doors to educate folks on the Public Service Commission race. In Fayette, Houston, & Paulding County–communities long written off as unwinnable–GYJC showed up and changed what’s possible in Georgia.

🚨 🚨 Huge movement in the formerly red suburbs of Greater Cincinnati tonight. School board flips. Local city hall and township seats. Judicial flips. All historic. Flashing red light in what used to be biggest GOP strongholds in Ohio. 2026 is coming!!!!!

New awareness campaign

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill won Latino voters by 39 points, unravelling Trump’s advances.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has ordered an immediate pause on residential evictions and water shutoffs as the federal lapse in SNAP funds takes effect. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia...

I really needed to this reframe of the red state gerrymandering efforts.

This person took this when they called the race

no small thing!

🎶🎶 I believe in miracles Since you came along You sexy thing🎶🎶

a good night for dems. Hoping we have another good one next November!

Inside the Newsom strategy that passed redistricting and beat Trump back in California

‘Turn the volume up’: Mamdani invokes Trump in fiery speech that laid out plan of action

Congratulations on your re-election, Mayor Wu - the best mayor in America. You proved once more that Boston can't be bought and won't be bullied.

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

and still more good news.

more good news. The GOP push to redistrict Kansas is dead for now.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins the race for Virginia governor!!!